Arena league football

Everton’s new chief executive, Professor Denise Barrett-Baxendale, has a private observatory offering an enticing glimpse of the club’s destiny. Her office view from the seventh floor of the Royal Liver Building stretches from Liverpool’s spectacular world heritage site on the River Mersey towards Bramley Moore Dock, where Everton intend to relocate. As she glances towards the site, it would be remiss not to ask how often she visualises the £500 million arena, and dreams of hearing the Champions League anthem within it. “I don’t think that is a dream. That is the reality. I plan for it,” she insists, admitting her workspace strategically designed to watch a future construction evolve. “I just believe anything is possible with a football club like ours, but expectations have to be managed, obviously. I will not be reckless with my ideas, but why not? We need a new home. The land is available. Now we have to make it possible. “We … [Read more...] about Everton chief executive on transforming club: ‘Champions League football isn’t a dream. I’m planning for it’

n the build-up to a new season, it's inevitable that Sky Sports' marketing team will be keen to bring in new customers. You will see billboards, TV campaigns, targeted adverts, promoted social media posts, flyers pushed through your letterbox. And you would expect no less of course from a company that has, once again, invested billions and billions of pounds to ensure they have the rights to what is undeniably the most lucrative league in football. The Costs A basic Sky package costs £20 amonth. If you were to add one sports channel, Sky Sports Premier League for instance, it would cost you £38 a month. The full Sky package that includes Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports F1, Sky Sports Golf, Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Action and Arena costs £48 a month. This means that throughout the course of an August-May season, football fans will spend between £380-£480 - and that's before you consider the added cost of BT Sport or the luxury … [Read more...] about How to watch Premier League football live on Sky while saving hundreds

As a young boy, Cameron Craig struggled to catch or kick a ball. He was born prematurely and suffered dyspraxia – a developmental condition that causes problems with coordination and movement. But after having treatment, Cameron developed a love of sport. And now, at the age of 22, he’s on the brink of a professional career as an American football player. Cameron was born six weeks early and his parents Scott and Louise feared he might not survive. They named him after Professor Alan Cameron, the obstetrician who saved his life at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children. When he looks back on his childhood, Cameron can’t believe how far he’s come, from the tiny premature baby to a 6ft 4in mountain of a man. He has been offered a professional football contract with the Las Vegas Cobras to play in the arena league in January 2019. Cameron, who only took up the sport four years ago, believes he could be the first Scottish player to be given such an opportunity … [Read more...] about Scot born with debilitating dyspraxia on brink of career in American Football

The three largest mobile communications operators have reported about the use of over 16.9 terabytes (TB) of mobile Internet traffic at the Olympiysky National Sports Complex and in the fan zones during the UEFA Champions League final in Kyiv on May 26. "On May 26, almost 230,000 Kyivstar subscribers were at the Olympiysky National Sports Complex and in the fan zones of the Champions League, of which 22% were 4G users. They talked 1.5 million minutes (incoming and outgoing), sent 767,000 SMS messages and also used 8.2 TB of data. This can be compared to eight years of listening to music in good quality or one year of viewing video (1080p)," the press service of Kyivstar said. The main use of data traffic in the operator's network was video streaming, messengers and web surfing - 35%, 26% and 19% of data traffic respectively. In turn, Vodafone Ukraine mobile operator said that during the match its subscribers preferred 4G mobile communication. "On May 26, in the places where the … [Read more...] about UEFA Champions League football fans in Kyiv use over 17 TB of mobile Internet traffic

Two mutliplayer online battle games are among the six selected for the 2018 Asian Games where esports will make its debut as an official sport, the Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF) announced on Thursday. League of Legends and Arena of Valor, where one team of players battle with another in an online arena, and football-based Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 are the team events to be played at this year’s exhibition event. Strategy games Hearthstone, Starcraft II and Clash Royale, which feature battle scenes on occasion, will be the individual events. “In the selection of Asian Games Esports, we exercised stringent criteria, i.e. the game must adhere to our vision of promoting integrity, ethics, and fair play,” AESF President Kenneth Fok said in a statement. “Esports will strive to inspire and motivate the youth of the world to be the best they can be through educational and entertaining interactive challenges.” Esports, the competitive … [Read more...] about League of Legends, PES among games selected for Asian Games